Manager, Demand Planning - Mississauga, Canada - BAXTER

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Mississauga, Canada

1 month ago

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This is where you save and sustain lives
At Baxter, we are deeply connected by our mission. No matter your role at Baxter, your work makes a positive impact on people around the world.

You'll feel a sense of purpose throughout the organization, as we know our work improves outcomes for millions of patients.

Baxter's products and therapies are found in almost every hospital worldwide, in clinics and in the home. For over 85 years, we have pioneered significant medical innovations that transform healthcare.

Together, we create a place where we are happy, successful and inspire each other. This is where you can do your best work.

Join us at the intersection of saving and sustaining lives—where your purpose accelerates our mission.


Your Role at Baxter


In this role, you will be responsible for producing a collaborative demand signal throughout the Canadian and US operation that will drive manufacturing, distribution, and provide a baseline for financial planning.

You will also be responsible for running and managing the end to end sales and operations planning process through collaboration with cross-functional teams.


What you'll do

  • Develop a single unconstrained collaborative demand signal with the MPT business segment
  • Drive a monthly sales/Op forecast alignment process to assess gaps between sales and operations and drive understanding for rationale of gaps
  • Develops appropriate action plans to improve forecast accuracy
  • Interface with commercial teams to capture business intelligence over and above historical demand
  • Develop statistical forecast models, analyze historical demand and incorporate any known qualitative information (i.e. anticipated market changes, seasonality, trends, etc) to obtain best fit forecast that balances the need for customer service and a return on inventory investment.
  • Interface with supply planning team to understand over/under consumed forecast ad track business intelligence included in forecast
  • Align our operational forecast with out financial forecast in working with out finance team
  • Lead cross functional monthly planning rhythm
  • Facilitate monthly consensus meetings with cross functional leaders (commercial reviews with marketing and senior leadership meetings), set targets, high impact agenda, compile inputs from stakeholders across the business. Monthly review with Senior leadership team
  • Support issue identification (Supply constraints, available capacity) and initiate cross functional resolution
- coach and support to ensure comprehensive, fact based decisions.

  • Colead and participate in globally driven Demand and Supply IBR's

What you'll have

  • Minimum bachelors degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Data Management, Operations and/or Supply Chain
  • 5+ years in Demand planning and Sales and Operations planning experience
  • Prior experience in S&OP Design and successful sustainable implementation, Demand Management, Planning, Customer Engagement programs, Lean Adoption
  • Organization agility, ability to review a business change in a factbased manner and present alternative solutions
  • Strong communication with strong business acumen
  • Superior data collection skills
  • Ability to engage and influence others
  • Customer facing experience

Nice to have

  • APICS certification and/or working towards (Ie CPIM) / Specialization in Operations courses
  • 3+ years in Healthcare operations and Supply Chain
  • Lean and Six Sigma exposure and practical experience
  • Group purchasing organization exposure

Reasonable Accommodations

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